Rubedo/videoinstallation

VIDEO 25’ 07’’

BY CECILIA BERTONI
2023

conceived by  Cecilia Bertoni
in collaboration with  Carl G. Beukman, Claire Guerrier, Fernando Marques Penteado
directed by  Cecilia Bertoni
music, sounds and noises  Carl G. Beukman
with  Cecilia Bertoni, Carl G. Beukman, Claire Guerrier, Fernando Marques Penteado
filming and visual effects  Nadia Baldi
editing  Nadia Baldi, Cecilia Bertoni
RUBEDO costume design made by  Lucia Castellana
technical direction and set-up  Paolo Morelli
production  Michela Giovannelli

The video RUBEDO originates from the homonymous video installation by Cecilia Bertoni that draws on the theme of death and dying, through the celebration of her own funeral, but also tells of the relevance and instability of living, in an individual and collective sense, in its affinities with the mysteries and the imagery of the alchemical process.
Existence – in the light of life as a complete work, with all its falls, with its little deaths – reaching the end can reveal itself as a fabric full of irony, colours and even lightness. And those who remain celebrate their sadness, but also honour the poetry of the moment. In the video, the visitors are transported to a disembodied elsewhere, in which the transition and transformation of every daily gesture becomes a ritual.
The word “rubedo” evokes the eternal transformation of the body and soul.
The two videos RUBEDO and On the corner, contrasting in aesthetic and sound choices, follow the story of a single figure that changes, dances, laughs, walks, travels, rests, abandons itself and becomes aware of every mistake, fall and uncertainty.

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